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Kate Beckinsale is an English actress noted for her roles in Van Helsing, Underworld, and the 2012 remake of Total Recall. She was born in 1973 in Finsbury Park, London, and later attended Oxford University. Before rising to fame in the US with a leading role in the break-out film Pearl Harbor, she appeared in a number of British period dramas. She is married to director Len Wiseman and has a daughter with actor Michael Sheen.

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26 Jul, 1973

Kate Beckinsale born in London

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kate-beckinsale-young-2Kathrin Romary Beckinsale is born in London to British comedian and actor Richard Beckinsale and actress Judy Loe. At the age of five, she loses her father to a heart attack which causes her to develop anorexia. Her widowed mother later remarries director Roy Battersby, with whom she maintains a close relationship. She also has a paternal half-sister, actress Samantha Beckinsale. About her step-father:

I couldn’t have knitted a better one … He wasn’t pushy, he let me come to him.